How else can Google demonstrate its superiority? Display how WebP compares to JPEG or PNG, obviously. Without sacrificing the quality, WebP is able to achieve dramatic reduction in size by up to 34% when compared to JPEG and up to 26% when compared to PNG.

But wait, there is more. Although you can’t see in this particular slide above, WebP actually supports lossless transparency and most importantly, animations!

Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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Comments (9)

Somebody pointed out that WebP supporting animations and WebP supporting transparency where 2 different versions. Did they solved that problem now? (So you can have transparency AND animations in SAME image?)